the stupid thing is I still have my children and I adding our MS accounts after creating the local accounts, because I like setting the parental limits once for all the computers. I just can’t stand the stupid email-based usernames it creates when signing into the MS account during account creation.

Here’s the whole section you’re selectively quoting

How does party affiliation work in Texas? In Texas, there are several main ways for a voter to affiliate with a party: by being accepted to vote in a party’s primary election, by taking the required oath at a party precinct convention, or by taking a party oath of affiliation generally (§§162.003, 162.006, 162.007). A voter’s affiliation with a party automatically expires at the end of each calendar year, which is December 31. (§162.010). A voter who has affiliated themselves with a party is ineligible to participate in the party affairs of another party during the same calendar year. (§§162.012, 162.013)

Emphasis added to show that there is no persistent, year-over-year affiliation (I emphasize this word because there is no party registration in Texas)

And the only way you can vote in a primary is to register with them

I have never registered with a party. There is no field for party affiliation in the online voter registration form

https://vrapp.sos.state.tx.us/index.asp

And the registration certificate doesn’t include a party affiliation

https://www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/voter-registration-certificate.html

And a Non-potato quality picture

https://disabilityrightstx.org/en/handout/understanding-your-texas-voter-registration-certificate/

you can do it on the spot if you want, but once you do it, that’s it

Every primary election I’ve participated in the official who checks you in just asked which primary you want to vote in. And since voter registration in Texas does not track party affiliation you’re going to have a rough time convincing me this counts as registering with the party.

The spam you’re getting is simply because it’s public record whether you voted in any election, including which primary you voted in. But it’s not the same as other states recording your party affiliation as part of your voter registration, which Texas flat out does not do.

Texas doesn’t have party affiliation on your voter registration and we have open primaries.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2020-05.shtml

but it won’t end the blue/green bubble nonsense.

Cheers!

I started my beehaw and ml accounts on June 2. This one and Lemmy.one are coming up on June 11. And my sdf.org account was on June 30. But this is the one that stuck 😁.

This is why I use virtual credit card numbers for everything online.

Third parties in the US will never be a reality without election reform. That in turn will have to be preceded by high voter turnout to push state legislatures more progressive.

We use “my side” and “your side” so it’s always correct from any perspective.

Well color me jelly. That’s like actually usable and shit.

wait, really? For me on Windows 11 the launcher right-click literally just has one entry: Firefox. Nothing for recent/frequent/open tabs. Nothing for opening a new tab or window. Nothing for Private. Just that one entry that does the same thing as just clicking the launcher. There’s a separate start menu item for private browser window, I could pin that on the taskbar next to the regular launcher.

And what’s different from the current profile manager.

From a usability standpoint, what current profile manager? Having to web search to find out how to open it puts it beyond the reach of most users.

Fuck yeah.

F’ing Lightroom, man.

Can someone eggsplain this?

Sorry.

I don’t think ESPN cable would be affordable to most people without bundling it into cable packages

Then it’s not a viable network.

their TV is subsidized by every non sports watching household.

But that’s exactly why people started ditching cable in the first place. They wouldn’t be bundling ESPN with non-sports channels, they would bundle other less popular sports channels with ESPN so they can jack up the price because ESPN. But ESPN doesn’t carry the sports I follow, and I can’t get the network that does without paying double because it’s in a bundle with ESPN.

Bundling is only cheaper if I actually want all of the bundled things, but that’s not how companies like Comcast bundle things.

Network neutrality became policy after Comcast, Verizon, and ATT were all caught throttling Netflix while their own competing services were lagging behind in market share. It was a response to a real problem that was harming competitors and consumers.

I love what Google did for recursion

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion&oq=recursion

Baron is from Brian Blessed as Voltan in Flash Gordon yelling “BARINNNNNNNN” at Timothy Dalton, and not knowing it was spelled with an “i” instead.